HMK Rijeka

[JimBHibees]

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Anyone know the dates for this possible game ?

Home 5th August away 12th august

[GreenCastle]

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Home 5th August away 12th august

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[calumhibee1]

I’d be surprised if we won it from looking at their record.

They’ll be strong favourites. Not an impossible task but it’ll take a huge effort and a lot of luck I reckon.

[patlowe]

Qualifying for a group stage would be game-changing for us but looking at Rijeka and the round beyond, the quality we would have to get past to get there shows how tough it is to reach the group stage in any of these UEFA competitions. On the other hand, clubs of equivalent stature to us (or lower) seem to qualify pretty regularly so it's clearly not impossible. I guess the first step is putting yourself in the position every year and fingers crossed one day the stars align.

[Lendo]

So if we don’t get through this next round do we drop down to the Europa Conference group stage immediately?

[Diclonius]

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So if we don’t get through this next round do we drop down to the Europa Conference group stage immediately?

Hate to break it to you mate but we're already in the Europa Conference League.

[Gmack7]

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So if we don’t get through this next round do we drop down to the Europa Conference group stage immediately?

I think we go into the champions league 🥂

[greenpaper55]

They beat Wolfsburg pre season friendly 3-1, a better guide will be when they play Dinamo Zagreb on the 1st of August. They are a good side and comments such as "we will pump them" show a complete disregard of their quality.

[hibee316]

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So if we don’t get through this next round do we drop down to the Europa Conference group stage immediately?

Oooft....this is awkward!

[JimBHibees]

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Hate to break it to you mate but we're already in the Europa Conference League.

Think I detect sarcasm in his response

[JimBHibees]

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They beat Wolfsburg pre season friendly 3-1, a better guide will be when they play Dinamo Zagreb on the 1st of August. They are a good side and comments such as "we will pump them" show a complete disregard of their quality.

Got to be said the place Rijeka looks a beautiful place. Would have been a fantastic trip.

https://www.inyourpocket.com/rijeka/basics

The results in this link give you an idea of their quality. They beat Dinamo twice in 2020 but also lost heavily in the league to them. They will be clear favourites looking at their European pedigree.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ri...6y24;mt;fp;1;;

[King Cosell]

In 2018 they had 1 player, Filip Bradaric, in Croatia's World Cup squad. They didn't have any players at 2021 Euros.

[Bishop Hibee]

A lot will depend on us still having our key players particularly Martin Boyle.

[Lendo]

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Hate to break it to you mate but we're already in the Europa Conference League.

hahaha, ****. I thought last night was the Europa League. I’m clearly on another planet.

[BegbieHSC]

I thought Aberdeen would struggle last night, and they proved us very wrong. Barring a major collapse in Andorra, I wouldn’t write off our chances.

[AliboyFC]

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There was over 4600 there… 3 tickets away from max allocation.

Yeh them 3 tickets didn't sell because they had to self iscolate I saw them on twitter.

[AliboyFC]

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hahaha, ****. I thought last night was the Europa League. I’m clearly on another planet.

😂 would have been if we won the cup.

[Lendo]

Being a huge pessimist I never gave us much of a chance against Asteras. How wrong I was.

[Sir David Gray]

It's not beyond us but if I was being realistic I don't think we'll go any further.

[neil7908]

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It's not beyond us but if I was being realistic I don't think we'll go any further.

This. Whilst I'd of course love to see us progress, whatever the result I just want to see us given a good account of ourselves and come away without any regrets.

[H18 SFR]

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They beat Wolfsburg pre season friendly 3-1, a better guide will be when they play Dinamo Zagreb on the 1st of August. They are a good side and comments such as "we will pump them" show a complete disregard of their quality.

Wonder if their fans forum is saying the same about Arsenal and our opening game at Motherwell?

[lord bunberry]

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Wonder if their fans forum is saying the same about Arsenal and our opening game at Motherwell?

Course they are, they’re ****ting themselves.

[CentreLine]

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Yeh them 3 tickets didn't sell because they had to self iscolate I saw them on twitter.

I like that idea, wish it was a fact🤣
Match was, however, sold out and three people failed to trap. Happens even in derby games, there’s always more tickets sold than attendees

[AFKA5814_Hibs]

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Just having a look at their European record the last few seasons confirms we are in for a tough game. Regularly make the Europa League group stages & have knocked out some decent teams (Stuttgart, RB Salzburg, Copenhagen) along the way.

Also had wins in the group stages over AC Milan, Austria Vienna, Feyenoord, Standard Liege and AZ Alkmaar. Drew 2-2 with a Sevilla team who went on to win the competition.

A club who have far more European experience than we have in recent years. A tough match indeed.

[.Sean.]

Gutted we won’t have an official allocation and that sitting in the home end sounds very much a no-go after a bit research. Quite easy to get there via London. Looks like some place which would have meant it would have been some trip

[AlbertK86]

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I’d be surprised if we won it from looking at their record.

They’ll be strong favourites. Not an impossible task but it’ll take a huge effort and a lot of luck I reckon.

Yep it’ll be tough but I definitely think we are far better as the underdog and when teams come at us. Our ability to break so quickly is our biggest asset.

Reckon 3-5-2 against them may be the way to go. We look fatr more secure with 3 especially when Daz sits in the middle just behind the other 2


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[PatHead]

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I'd class them in the same bracket as Dnipro and Maribor. Very tough tie.

Think our team is better than it was when we played those games. Can only hope.

[H18 SFR]

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Think our team is better than it was when we played those games. Can only hope.

I agree and a better manager as well.

[.Sean.]

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Think our team is better than it was when we played those games. Can only hope.

This team is better than the side Mowbray had at his disposal when we played Dnipro?(And I know we got pumped.)

[bingo70]

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Think our team is better than it was when we played those games. Can only hope.

I don’t know about better but we’re more defensively solid and for European games I suspect that’ll stand us in better stead.

Being an open attacking team would leave gaps that are quite easily exploited by better teams.

I don’t mean that in a negative way about this side, it’s just how I see us now.

There’s no away goals this year either is there?